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MARKETING COURSES (MKT)
 
MKT 3361 Principles of Marketing (3)
  A managerial focus on the external environments and decision elements of marketing (promotion, price, product, distribution) faced by marketing management at the corporate and entrepreneurial levels of business.
   
MKT 3362 Advertising (3)
  The planning, creation, utilization, and place of advertising programs, media use, and research to support marketing strategy. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 3363 Transportation Management (3)
  Management considerations in selection and effective utilization of various modes of transportation. Prerequisite: MGT 3371; MKT 3361.
   
MKT 3364 Services Marketing (3)
  Understand the nature of services marketing and its critical contribution to marketing success. Topics include customer expectations and perceptions in the design of service processes and standards. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 3365 Integrated Marketing Communications (3)
  Course examines integrated marketing communications and how this enhances brand equity. Emphasis is placed on the decision sequence a manager would follow in planning, developing, and implementing a marketing communications program. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4461 Personal Selling (3)
  An applied course that introduces the economic, psychological, and social aspects of personal selling, direct selling techniques, and the sales process with emphasis on building customer relationships. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4462 Consumer Behavior (3)
  A study of the consumer as a decision maker. The course examines social, cultural, and psychological influences on purchasing decisions while emphasizing their implications for marketing strategies. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4463 Retailing (3)
  Principles and practices of retail management. The course examines retail store location, purchasing, personnel, promotions, inventory management, and Internet marketing. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4464 Marketing Research (3)
  Methods and procedures for collection, interpretation, and use of primary and secondary data in marketing including sampling, questionnaires, data collection, analysis, and preparation of reports. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4465 Business Logistics (3)
  A study of the procurement, warehousing, and transportation activities related to distribution system design, operation, and control. Prerequisite MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4466 Direct Marketing (3)
  Principles and techniques in planning, creating and producing consumer-direct communications to reach and deliver goods and services to customers. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4467 Sales Management (3)
  A study of the management of the personal selling functions. Emphasis is on the sales process including recruitment, training, organization, motivation and retention of sales force. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4468 International Marketing (3)
  Decision making and policy formulation relative to the cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of marketing in global environments. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4469 Marketing Management (3)
  This is the capstone course for marketing major students. Focus is on marketing management problem solving by applying marketing concepts, procedures and practices learned. Vehicles to deepen this decision-making approach will include text, cases and simulations. Prerequisite: 15 SH in marketing courses beyond MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4481 Internet Marketing I (3)
  Focuses on the opportunities and changes inherent in the Internet market. Includes a brief overview of the tools and technology that make it possible and how the Internet should and can impact marketing strategy. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.
   
MKT 4482 Internet Marketing II (3)
  A practicum cyber-incubator offered as an opportunity to manage a simulated business on the Internet. Skill development will focus on tools necessary to conduct business over the Internet. Prerequisite: MKT 4481.
   
MKT 4495 Selected Topics in Marketing (3)
  An in-depth study of a broad range of marketing topics. Individual investigations and reporting emphasized in seminar fashion. Focuses on a topic of a timely nature and/or special interest. Prerequisite: MKT 3361.